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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780061756078
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0061756075
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 01, 2009
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Studio: Ecco
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate returns with his fifteenth book of poetry, an exciting new collection that offers nearly one hundred fresh and thought-provoking pieces that embody Tate's trademark style and voice: his accessibility, his dark humor, and his exquisite sense of the absurd.
Tate's work is stark-he writes in clear, everyday language-yet his seemingly simple and macabre stories are layered with broad and trenchant meaning. His characters are often lost or confused, his settings bizarre, his scenarios brilliantly surreal. Opaque, inscrutable people float through a dreamlike world where nothing is as it seems. The Ghost Soldiers offers resounding proof, once again, that Tate stands alone in American poetry.
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CHERUBIC appears on page 171 in this collection THE GHOST SOLDIERS: POEMS (2008). I thought ahead preparing for the interview. "CHERUBIC is by the old James Tate," I said. "What do you mean?" said Oprah. "Well, it fits on one page and it finishes with a twist," I said. "Oh," she said. Obligingly I went on. "It comes to one possibly cute definitely thoughtful point," I said. I mean cute to be novel, creative, fun, but not trivial. This went unspoken. "Like your head has been hollowed out ... Read More
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It's true that you won't find complex or obtuse poetry in this book as you find in so many other collections, but one thing you will discover that you won't find in those other collections is an enjoyable read. Poetry that's entertaining, now that's a revolutionary concept.
Those who turn their noses to Tate's latest work (all who seem to be fans of his earlier work) tend to read poetry collections that read like books of crossword puzzles. It's the riddle, the exclusivity of the poem ... Read More
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May 7, 2008
It's a bit sad that this book has been out so long and I am the first to review it. For more than twenty years I have been reading Mr. Tate's work, and I would suggest that those interested in Tate should concentrate on the early work. The best of it appears in Constant Defender and Absences, in my opinion. Then a steady decline. I'll probably buy the next book because I'm addicted to his voice. All that said, Ghost Soldiers in another disappointment. Tate turns his craft almost ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780061756078
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0061756075
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 01, 2009
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Studio: Ecco